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The Meta Trial and the Limits of Protection
« on: February 19, 2026, 01:26:23 pm »
The Meta Trial and the Limits of Protection

When safeguarding children becomes a gateway to controlling communication

The Last Wire

Mark Zuckerberg is in court. The headline says it’s about protecting kids from Instagram and Facebook.

Don’t be naive.

This case isn’t just about teenagers. It’s about whether “child safety” becomes the justification for restructuring how adults communicate online.

When regulators say a platform’s “design” causes harm, what comes next? Algorithm mandates. Forced monitoring. Broader content controls. AI systems trained to detect and suppress “risky” speech.

And once that machinery exists, it will not stay confined to minors.

History is clear. Emergency powers expand. Surveillance tools normalize. Regulations passed for sympathetic cases rarely shrink later.

If the standard becomes potential psychological harm to some users, then everything is on the table.

Video platforms. Messaging apps. Forums. Encrypted tools. Any system that influences behavior.

This isn’t about defending Meta. It’s about defending the principle that adults in a free society do not lose autonomy because lawmakers decide platforms must be made “safer.”

Precedent is power. And power, once granted, does not retreat voluntarily.

Read the full piece at The Last Wire

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Re: The Meta Trial and the Limits of Protection
« Reply #1 on: Today at 02:59:52 am »
During COVID, I attempted to post two links to peer reviewed medical journal articles in the NIH library. Just the links, not even the titles of the scientific papers linked, no commentary.

One article from 2005 showed that zinc had proven to be effective against SARS (the original one) in vitro and in vivo, which was enough for me to understand that getting Zinc into the cells affected (epithelial airway cells and Type 1 Pneumocytes) was likely the key to stopping the virus.

I believe the other article dealt with how Hydroxychloroquine acted as an ionophore, helping those crucial Zinc ions to get into those same cells and be more effective than just supplementing your diet with Zinc.

By the time I had released my mouse button to post, the post was branded as "misinformation", in less time than it would have taken to click on the link, load, and read the title of the first study.

I have called "Meta" "Fecebook" ever since.

Those two studies vindicated the medical logic behind the tow treatments which have proven viable in millions, and the Ivermectin/Doxycycline/Zinc treatment protocol worked for me, even if rounding up the components amounted to a scavenger hunt that led from the feed store to Walmart to to the walk in clinic and a pharmacy. AMA Forbid you could get all three at the same place. But I wonder how many died needlessly because of such throttling of critical information?

The problem with such gateways is that sometimes the answer to a problem is not within the orthodoxy, and using the rules of the orthodoxy to interfere with the flow of information damns scientific inquiry to a new dark age.
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Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

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